What are ya listening to?
I’m listening to new releases by the old war horses: Neil Young, the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen. All three have great releases out right now. But I also keep going back for tastes of new releases from some acts that have never cracked the musical stratsphere: Bad Religion’s latest, New Maps of Hell, is an extraordinary collection of songs with something to say on our current condition. Ya gotta love the punk-rock riffs carrying the intellectual capital in tunes like New Dark Ages. Another that has been getting a lot of play here lately is Ryan Adams’ Easy Tiger. Punk/country with a troubadour’s sense of reality. Great stuff.
